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Lewis Hamilton wins Formula 1 drivers championship
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YES YES YES!!!!!!
After having Jensen Button as the Tim Henman of motor racing, its nice to see the english win something other than the champions league (which was won by a bunch of foreigners)
My best moment of this years F1, would have to be watching the Ferrari team celebrating like mad nutters, and looking like utters nobs, then realising they hadnt actually won!
After having Jensen Button as the Tim Henman of motor racing, its nice to see the english win something other than the champions league (which was won by a bunch of foreigners)
My best moment of this years F1, would have to be watching the Ferrari team celebrating like mad nutters, and looking like utters nobs, then realising they hadnt actually won!
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Couldnt believe he nabbed it right at the death!
He was on dry tyres still and it was wet, he just lost the grip he needed to carry on at that speed.
Gripping stuff, if you'll excuse the pun.
Was that not the British flag flying after he won, or now he's won something is he English?
I'm not his biggest fan to be honest. Saying that, it made my day when square face Coulthard went off at the first corner in his las ever race :thumb:
This year he won on the last corner due to a mistake of another driver, otherwise he would have lost it again, hopefully this victory will make him more confidant that he can do it without luck shining down on him
Also loved Ferrari celebrating before realising they'd lost hehe!
SnuggleBubbles..... Which Driver made a mistake?? If you're talking about Glock then I can't see a mistake being made which has allowed Hamilton to win....Glock stayed on dry tyres when Hamilton pitted to go onto wets...thats the only reason Glock was in front of Hamilton, Glock took a gamble which looked like it was going to pay off but on the last lap their was too much water and Glock was struggling to keep control of the car and had to slow down dramatically allowing hamilton to pass! Hamilton only passed him on the 2nd to last corner i think and ended up 5 seconds in front of Glock which shows just how slow Glock had to go!
). nice pics. very very very good
Glock and his team made a mistake, and fair enough he was only in front because he did not pit, but hamilton screwed up on the second to last lap by going down to 6th.
Its like he gets a simple target then horribly fails to get to it like last year, got nothing against lewis hamilton but he has to get tougher like Mike Schumacher though to be fair hes only young and will hopefully do this again in the future
But if they were sure that they would pass Glock, then why risk getting hit trying to stop someone over taking you?
Nothing is guaranteed in racing - as Ferrari know now - and the main reason to stop someone overtaking you is so doubters like me are shut up.
I guess i have a Tim Henman Complex We boost someone up and up and up until they become living legends without winning anything - when Hamilton does this again i will be quiet, until then ill be a mumbling doubter :grump:
I wouldn't say Glock and his team made a mistake, they took a gamble which very nearly paid off! If they would have pitted then they would have finished behind Hamilton anyway, so no mistakes made IMO, just a gamble that if the track had being half a mile shorter would have paid off and Hamilton wouldn't be World Champion.
Simple Target?? Horribly Fails?? Hmmmmm
Finishish 5th in an F1 Grand Prix isn't a simple target! Going into the last race 7 points clear isn't a simple target! Winning the F1 World Championship isn't failure!
Hamilton was slow all weekend and so was the other Maclaren! Hamilton didn't screw up by losing a place to Vettel; Vettel was quicker than Hamilton, he had being the whole race / weekend and his team assured him he would get past Glock so instead of battling with a car who was quicker and having a chance of an accident he's not battled so hard!
Its a lot more tactical than just racing round a track!
When i say simple target to come 5th or higher it is taking into account that Hamilton was driving one of if not the fastest car on the grid, also taking into account that he has huge ability as a driver and is a refreshing change as he is someone who will :eek: overtake :eek: other drivers! - also taking into account his past record of top 3 finishes in the past, its not that hard a task for someone of his ability.
I dont really know what was more priceless, him winning or watching the ferrari team when they realised he had won :crying: :crying: :crying:
In interviews afterwards he expalained they wern't running as much dowforce as most of the othercars meaning he didn't have speed on the corners that Vettel had meaning he could't overtake.
He missed out on the title last season for not being cautios enough. The title is awarded to the most consistant driver of the season not the most agressive.
In football you don't put 11 strikers on the pitch hoping to score lots at the expensive of letting a lot in.
Mclaren and Hamilton made no mistakes and eveything that went wrong this season was someone elses fault and all the luck that came his way was down to people taking gambles and them not paying off!
I can be so silly sometimes :rolleyes:
Massa had some technical failures during the season that lost him some points. He'll be one to watch next year; did you see him on the podium at the end? - He knows he can be champion!
I wonder how the big changes for next season will affect all the teams..
Not for purpose of dis-agreeing with you "a gamble that didn't pay off" is not a mistake! You tell me what would have happened if Glock hadn't gambled??
My answer - Glock would have gone onto wet tyres meaning a pit-stop costing around 25 seconds in total and come out of the pits behind Hamilton!
I still don't see where the Glock mistake is - instead of just saying he made a mistake why don't you explain yourself, and explain what you mean by Glock and his team making a mistake? Like I said previously - its more tactical than just racing round a track in a fast car. Huh? Don't think anyones said that! Not the fastest car on that track in this weekend, the car just wasn't set-up right for this track.
Just because Mclaren and Hamilton have had the fastest car at some tracks doesn't mean its the case at every track, lots of settings and lots of things to go right / wrong - once again more about F1 than just getting the fastest car and racing round a track :rolleyes:
I respect your right to an opinion and ask that you respect my point of view without pathetic and cheap little digs.
I refer you back to my 3rd post, cant be arsed getting into personal crap about something like this.
So..no explanation as to what mistake Glock and his team made?
Staying on dry tyres in wet conditions.
Simple as.
For any of the drivers, the title is a bigger prize than any individual race.
The title is about being the most consistantly good driver, it's not about throwing caution to the wind in an attempt to win every GP.
Man City do.
I wouldn't have said that this was a mistake, it was a choice that very nearly paid off, as already mentioned had he pitted to change tyres he wouldn't have had any possibility of finishing in front of Hamilton, this way it all came down to the last corner of the last lap...
I actually thought that this was really quite sad especially as he had dedicated the race to charity.